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Linux Mint Nightlight and Other Updates



Linux Mint has some new news for the upcoming cinnamon desktop. We will look at that and the exciting news about a new deal …

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  1. Hey bro, blue light certainly does affect deep sleep and the ease of getting asleep; there are actually hundreds of studies that confirm it and it is a known fact since like 25 years ago. Please step up your research game. Congrats, you can sleep after staring at blue light all day, many of us cannot.

  2. I haven't switched yet but I hope to… if my old brain can accommodate the changes. ๐Ÿ˜Š I have a question.

    I got some older Linux books hoping to understand the process of installing and getting used to all of this new lingo that I would have to understand. I've installed programs but never installed an OS before.

    I found a book on ebay, "Linux in Easy Steps" by Mike McGrath, it was published all the way back in 2006, but its illustrated and in color. It goes through everything from hardware, partions, etc. It does not cover Linux Mint. It only mentions Ubuntu, Redhat Fedora, SUSE and Mandriva.

    Looking at this book it seems easy enough and takes a LOT of the fear of messing it up or getting partway through the installation and setup and not being able to complete it because I don't know what the heck they are talking about; however, has Linux changed so much that this book would be totally outdated???

    Anybody familiar wih the book?

    Or do I need to take my computer to a shop and have them install it for me? ๐Ÿ˜ข

  3. I would not be able to use my computer if it were not for Redshift, my eyes are sensitive when things get too bright. So, it is not only the "blue light" thing that is the only main user case. For people with eye conditions Redshift and "Nightlight" are a lifesaver.

  4. /bin is a place of store root commands, /usr/bin is a place of store user commands, /sbin is a place of store root system-level commands, and /usr/sbin is a place of store user system-level commands. Merging them together is too suck.

  5. For me, it's not so much that the blue light keeps me up but rather that it is so damned bright, even when I turn the brightness down on my laptop. I use gammasstep in hyprland and the softer colors makes it much easier to view in a completely dark room.

  6. I'll give an upvote for Cinnamon's improvements. Around the time of that update I installed MX Linux on a Thinkpad, and of course they don't have a dedicated Cinnamon spin. I installed the Cinnamon package through the MX Package Installer, and really noticed the differences! Very nice compared to the old look. I admit that at first glance I thought the MX team might have done a little customizing and that confused me since like I said, no official spin, but then I remembered the update. I feel as comfortable with my MX setup as I do with my Mint and LMDE setups.
    Yeah, I feel fortunate that I don't have issues with displays affecting my sleep.
    I keep saying a Framework will be my next laptop, but as much as I like resuscitating old tech, I doubt it will happen lol.

  7. I like reduce blue light feature, not because it help me sleep, because it allow me to stair at the screen and not have headaches. I don't have this problem anymore but it help alot back when I have headaches problem from stair at any kind of screen and got headaches for few hours, sometimes a whole day.

  8. After 20 years of "trying" Linux distros, I'm finally daily driving Mint 22 on two of my home desktops. Took a little setup to get everything the way I like but, love it now!

  9. The blue light thing isn't false, It's definitely salient to night owls and people with delayed sleep phase. Light therapy is the main treatment in sleep medicine for that reason. I suspect the debunking is dubious but gained popularity for some reason.

  10. I have been using Linux Mint for several years. My main frustration with it is I can't get XBMC/Kodi to work on it for the last few months. It used to work just fine up till then. It doesn't seem to be getting supported and upgraded like it used to now and just crashes to desktop or doesn't even open. I have tried using the flat pack from software manager and the stable/nightly stable builds with terminal but nothing works. Any one have a solution for this? Is there a different distro that has better support for Kodi? I've only used Mint and haven't ever tried other distro's.

  11. Planning to upgrade RAM in my pc, with LMDE as a main OS and Win11 in a virtual machine, on nvme. I can go up to 64GB RAM, currently having 2x8GB. Will I benefit from 64GB or is it an overkill? I am not a gamer, just a standard user that wants to have a backup Win11 system if the need comes.

  12. Most desktop environments already have a night light feature built in. Both the Gnome and KDE desktops do, so does Gnome Flashback. It can be found in the display settings so there is no need to install Redshift, unless you like the Redshift features better. I have Debian Trixie with Cinnamon 6.29 which is I think an earlier version than Linux Mint's LMDE6. Which I think is Cinnamon 6.80. So I don't think Debian Cinnamon will be getting this feature any time soon. Though you can always install Redshift or another software like it if you want a night light. I don't use it myself and although it is in the Gnome and KDE settings I keep it turned off.

  13. Love this channel. Always good to hear concise information about one of the best operating systems out there. If mint could just build a cohesive system that worked for ex windows users, I believe you'd see a very large migration towards Linux. One of the few distros that stays true and works right out of the box

  14. I love Redshift because it was basically the only good option to save my eyeballs in the morning, but I'll be darned if it isn't fiddly to configure. How hard is it to include a GUI?

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